live from london, this is bbc news. has the war of words between donald trump and elon musk come to an end? reports the two men are trying to make peace. the us-backed aid agency in gaza says all its distribution sites are closed and it hasn't said when they'll re-open. another deadly night in ukraine. president zelensky says russia fired 400 drones and 40 missiles at his country. and, crazy in love...with tottenham. beyonce kicks off the uk leg of her tour in north london.

there are reports coming out of the us that a phone call to negotiate a possible end to the public feud between donald trump and elon musk is being negotiated. tesla shares in frankfurt rose more than 5% on the news. the men have been trading insults after the tech billionaire criticised one of president trump's key domestic policies. i'm very disappointed because elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here, better than you people, he knew everything about it, he had no problem with it. all of a sudden, he had a problem. just minutes later elon musk replied on x, saying this was false and that the bill had never been shown to him. while on truth social, president trump said elon musk was wearing thin and that he had asked him to leave. the president continued, saying he had taken away the ev mandate and that mr musk

had gone crazy. mr musk replied, calling this "an obvious lie". over the course of the day, the back and forth between the two continued. elon musk's father told the bbc that the row between his son and president trump would fizzle out. here's errol musk speaking to newsday. what i see here is the field having been cleared of all the opposition, it's the bulls having their final round of seeing who is going to be the boss. it's a standard procedure for the last several thousand years among the leaders of countries. and it will fizzle out. it blew up over elon's idea that there should be no form of payment to dem lawmakers in order to get their vote, they should not be bribed

to get their vote and so forth. so unfortunately in order to get the votes that trump needs to get the bill through, he has to have their votes. so elon is standing on principle. it will fizzle out very soon. that was errol musk, elon musk's father. our north america correspondent, jake kwon, who is in washington, told us more about all of this. as if the big public break-up wasn't spectacular enough, elon musk later called for impeachment of president trump and for him to be replaced by his vice president, jd vance. and even though elon musk is now out of the government, he still holds a lot of influence in washington. he owns a major social media company - x - where he has sway over the public opinion, especially those in the libertarian right who stood by mr trump. he owns almost limitless amount of money that he can

use to fund politicians and campaigns - maybe those who are opposed to mr trump. and that should worry mr trump's allies. and elon musk even has enough money to start his own political party if he wishes - which is something that he suggested on thursday in a social media post. but what may be most concerning is that two of the most powerful men on the planet are having this almost schoolyard-like fight instead of tackling other major challenges that they're facing. jake kwon in washington. there is much more on our website. turning to the middle east now... israel has carried out air strikes on beirut. the attack followed an evacuation warning by the israeli military for several buildings in the southern suburbs of the lebanese capital. the idf claims the buildings were being used for drone production by the iranian-backed group hezbollah. there were chaotic scenes before the attack as large numbers of people tried to leave the area.

the us-backed gaza humanitarian foundation - which is now responsible for the distribution of aid across gaza - says all distribution sites are closed. there is no time or date yet on when they will be reopened. barbara plett usher is our correspondent in jerusalem. once again we are seeing what is described as a controversial mechanism for distributing aid, backed by the us and by israel, it is not doing any distributing at the moment once again. yes, it has been working out renovating and repairing its sites, the group has said, after there have been a number of mass casualty events around the area as people were queueing or trying to get to those aid hubs, which we have been reporting, having gone through these israeli military zones. there has been gunfire that eyewitnesses have accused israeli troops. israel say they

are still investigating. in the meantime, the foundation has closed its sites for this repair work. it opened yesterday afternoon, two of the four of them, and it is now saying again that none of them will be open for the time being and that people should wait to hear the next announcement of when they can come. while we are waiting for that there has also been a further development, the israeli prime minister confirming that the israeli government is supplying weapons to a group in gaza, a group that some see as a criminal gang, that presents itself as an opposition force to hamas. what more do we know about this development? it is a bit of a political firestorm here in israel. the opposition politicians have started to accuse the prime minister of doing this, of arming the clans that are anti-hamas in gaza to be a counterweight to hamas and try to weaken it. eventually,

mr netanyahu responded, he was angry about the leak but he defended the actual policy. he said, no, this is working, and it means our soldiers will be safer. but the criticism coming from both the left and right of the political spectrum was the opposite, saying, no, this is actually making israel much less secure because you are creating a ticking time bomb, another opposition force, and who knows where that'll go? a lot of this is revolving around a militia led by a man called yasser abu shabab who has a reputation for heading a gang, a notorious reputation for heading a gang accused of stealing, looting humanitarian aid. he disputes this. he has also recently denied that the israelis are arming him but i think he is not going to convince many people in gaza about that. as always, thank you for your update, barbara

plett usher, reporting from jerusalem, we will catch up with you through the day. on the point of the gangs and benjamin netanyahu saying israel is supporting them. we can bring in our next guest. alon pinkas is a former israeli diplomat and writer. this political firestorm, it was leaked that the israeli government is supporting this figure, yasser abu shabab. what is your initial reaction at the israeli government is even supplying different clans across gaza, clans that are offering themselves up as potential opposition to hamas? first of all, my name is alon, not elon, you're confusing me! my apologies, we have heard so

much from elon musk. that is quite all right. back to your question. my initial thought was, to what end is israel doing this? what could possibly be achieved by arming a criminal gang with proven ties to isis, who have gangs roaming in the sinai peninsular south-west of the gaza strip? on the one hand, the idea, supposedly, was to prevent looting of humanitarian aid, both trucks and distribution. yet there is no evidence that this gang, this criminal gang, this anti-hamas gang, have done anything positive in that direction. and you look at it from a slightly broader

perspective, the middle east has a very sad and tragic history, that extremist organisations spring up and emerge when other organisations, previously thought as the most extreme, are being degraded by an outside force. it happened with the emergence of hezbollah in lebanon when the plo and other shi'ite organisations were weakened. it happened with isis in iraq. it also happened with several groups among the taliban in afghanistan. so arming this militia absolutely has no feasible and no discernible target. but one last observation on this, by arming this gang, clown, militia, call it what you will, israel is basically admitting

that it failed after 20 months to get rid of hamas. more importantly, it attests to the fact that israel has, for the last 20 months, persistently refused to engage in any post-war gaza talks, the inter-arab force that would come in to replace hamas. that was offered in late 2023, and several times during 2024. i really don't understand why israel is doing this and i certainly don't understand why the prime minister would be standing and boasting about it, what a great strategic idea it is to arm this criminal gang. what does it say about the netanyahu government, that this information was leaked? it's not the first time details have been leaked from his government. there were some military details leaked towards the end of last year. this is a man who is incredibly image-conscious. he is doing

everything he can to remain in power, and yet the leaks are still coming. as for his image, i think the october seven, 2023 indelibly tarnished that image. he can be as image-conscious as he wants but he can never improve on what had happened in terms of his image. the leak you are referring to, according to mr netanyahu, he is pointing a finger at one of the opposition leaders, a right-wing opposition leader, a centre-right opposition leader, a member of parliament called victor lieberman, a former defence minister, who used to be an ally of netanyahu, and to this now probably his most staunch nemesis in parliament. he accused him of leaking this from a subcommittee of foreign affairs in the knessett. i

don't know if that's the source of the league and there could be multiple sources for the leak. there could also be a possibility this was deliberately leaked. you never know with these leaks but the fact is that unlike his default denials, this time he took full responsibility for it and ownership of the responsibility, saying, yes, we are doing this and i don't see anything wrong with it. that tells you something. it certainly does. thank you for joining us on bbc news. my pleasure. president trump's travel ban on citizens from 12 countries is due to come into effect on monday. it applies to countries that he says "don't have things under control", and they include afghanistan, myanmar, chad and yemen. it's anticipated the ban will draw several legal challenges. christi jackson is a partner

and the head of the us practice at the laura devine immigration law firm. she joins us now. are we expected to see the kind of challenges that we saw to those initial bands during his first term? because arguably those were being deemed as muslim bans whereas here he has broadened out the somewhat. you are absolute right, he has broadened the countries and the list is definitely not just predominantly muslim countries. i don't think that will stop us from seeing the challenges. they are going to come. i'm surprised, i woke up this morning to scan to scan to see if i saw anything that had been filed overnight in the us. i haven't seen anything yet. it will happen. i think because the first ban, the 2017 trump administration ban, did survive the supreme court in trump versus hawaii, i think that

it's clear, we know now that the president does have wide discretionary latitude to make decisions on banning travel and restricting travel in the interests of national security. but i think some of the challenges, i am guessing are going to take the broad scope, with how many countries are on there, admittedly less than the leaked... there were fewer countries than the leaked memo in march, but there are still a lot of countries. i think it will probably be challenged on the basis, are those countries, are all those countries to national security threats? the partial travel ban, including seven countries, only bans

students, which makes you wonder whether other visa holders are not a threat to national security but visitors and students are. i think we will see some challenges soon, possibly early next week. on the point of students, is this comparable to what donald trump is doing when it comes to international students at institutions like harvard for example? does it bring them all in under the same umbrella or are the university international student bans very different? it might. interestingly, talking about legal challenges, the harvard ban was also issued the same day as this executive order on the more general travel ban and that has already had an injunction granted in the courts. but as far as the overlap, i think these are two separate travel ban. the

harvard travel ban and issues are specific to harvard whereas this travel ban we are discussing covers all individuals going to all locations if they are citizens of those countries will stop so where we have someone going to harvard and they are perhaps iranian, they will be banned under both of the executive orders, notwithstanding the fact that the harvard executive order does now have an injunction. good to get your clarity and thank you very much.

russia fired more than 400 drones and 40 missiles at ukraine overnight, according to president zelensky. ukrainian military says it pre-empted the attack by hitting russian airfields and fuel reservoirs. ukrainian state emergencies service says three rescue workers were killed in the capital kyiv, and around 40 people were wounded across the country. the attacks also targeted other major cities and the west of the country. they happened a day after president putin said he'd retaliate against ukraine for the drone attacks that destroyed or damaged dozens of russian strategic bomber planes. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams is in kyiv. another difficult night for ukraine. but my understanding is ukrainians don't appreciate calling this a retaliation by russia for their attack, because obviously they are at war and they were the ones who

were attacked by russia in that full-scale invasion three years ago. yeah, they rather roll their eyes when they hear people warning of retaliation, as donald trump indeed has done over the last day or two, saying things would not be pretty following his conversation with vladimir putin. it is worth remembering that a week ago, before the large, audacious ukrainian attack on russian airfields, the russians sent 472 drones in a single night over ukraine. that was the largest single figure of the war so far. this is part of a continuum, it's not really an escalation. people here in kyiv have experienced many, many, many knights just like the one we had last night. they spent a good chunk of it, like we did, in shelters, occasionally

venturing out to listen to the sound of anti-aircraft fire and occasionally very, very large explosions indeed. i'm just looking at the list of munitions recorded by the ukrainians. they say 36 cruise missiles were among the weapons used along with drones and ballistic missiles. of course, the cruise missiles are the very ones that the bombers that were targeted in ukraine's attack last sunday carry. so i think perhaps there was a relatively large number of cruise missiles last night was a little way of russia saying, you may think you have caused us damage but we are still capable of hitting you with precisely the same kind of munitions. paul adams, as always, to you and the team in the ukrainian capital, stay safe. diplomatic correspondent paul adams with the latest. here in the uk, labour

has won the scottish parliamentary by-election in hamilton, larkhall and stonehouse. the party took the south lanarkshire seat from the snp, which came second, with a majority of more than 600 votes. reform uk came third, and the conservatives fourth. our scotland reporter katie hunter is in hamilton for us. bring us up-to-date, a two horse race became a three horse race. this was the biggest test of voter opinion in scotland since the general election last year. it was a close contest, just 600 votes or so between scottish labour and the snp, with reform coming not far behind in third. i think this result came as a slight surprise for some. scottish labour leader anas sarwar said this morning that his party approved posters, political commentators and bookmakers wrong. the snp were hopeful of holding onto the seat. first minister john swinney and snp leader had been talking this up

as a two horse race between the snp and reform. as you mention, it became a three horse race with scottish labour just edging it. john swinney has been saying this morning that he is disappointed not to win but the people in this constituency have made it clear the snp still has work to do. when it comes to the win, old-fashioned campaign tactics are described as having made a real difference. what's your analysis of how the campaigning went? scottish labour's candidate didn't do that me interviews and that much media but labour were putting their focus on the ground here in hamilton larkhall and. that seems to have paid off. we are just about a year away from the scottish elections. -- in hamilton, larkhall and stonehouse. this is just one by-election in one seat in scotland but certainly political enthusiasts have been keeping a close eye on it. the

snp have been in power in scotland for around 18 years. the scottish conservatives are the second biggest party in holyrood followed by scottish labour. scottish labour are very pleased with this result. reform as well are very pleased. it was a bad night for the scottish conservatives, who have a lot to do over the next 11 months. but if this result is anything to go by, deck next year's scottish elections could be a close contest. but of course, 11 months is a long time in politics. briefly, the snp have a lot to think about. yes, the snp were hopeful they could hang onto the seat but it's worth putting it into a bit of context. at the general election last year, labour won an absolute landslide, so this was much closer, only 600 votes or so. labour did not win to the same extent as they did at

the general election last year. the snp's john swinney has only been leader for a year or so, but they will go away, analyse the results and look at what could be done better and focusing all their attention on next year's scottish elections. katie hunter, scotland reporter, thank you for joining us from hamilton. much more on that by-election result on our website. before i go i can take you to saudi arabia and to mecca. the hajj pilgrimage is taking place and we have been watching over the last few days, really dramatic images as millions of muslims from around the world go for this annual islamic pilgrimage to mecca, one of the most significant spiritual journeys in the religion of islam. the hajj pilgrimage this year is taking place between june the 4th and june the 9th.

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this is bbc news. the headlines: has the war of words between donald trump and elon musk come to an end? reports the two men are trying to make peace. the us-backed aid agency in gaza says all its distribution sites are closed, and hasn't yet said when they'll re-open. we travel to rural america to find out more about the controversial organisation tasked with bringing aid to the palestinians. inside here is actually a registration agent, so the foundation doesn't actually exist here at all.